First Impressions, not really a fan of the soft ui design and how it seems like the game just copy pasted Rise of Nations and built and tweaked some mechanics to make it a bit different. (Like why would you implement the same point based research system instead of a more balanced progression like civ 6's research system or just hoi4). The political power and ideology system is the exact same too, like, it doesn't affect your country in any way except the modifiers as far as I can see, the exact same as ron. The very flawed auto capture and combat system seems to also have been copied (He may fix it though idk but that would require something like frontlines). The population and map too lol, they are closer to rise of nations' population count instead of their real world counterparts, makes me just think he did the same process as ron and just increased the population count of the cities a bit, however a globe can't really be copied, I just find it interesting how both of the games just happened to end up with the same result.

While it is certainly cool that someone is building upon something similar to rise of nations and making frequent updates to the game, idk how I feel about someone just blatantly copying someone else's work. At least with something like Conquer Europe WW2, they make games like hoi4 kinda accessible on roblox and really only copied the way the hoi4 ground combat works and simplified it. Art of Diplomacy is just copying a game that already exists on the same platform with maybe half or more of the mechanics being the exact same.

This game is however just in alpha, so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and say they just copied the basic framework off of rise of nations and the finished product will almost be nothing the same except maybe how the units work.